{"slug":"the-boys","type":"series","title":"The Boys","year":2019,"releaseDate":null,"franchise":null,"genres":["Sci-Fi & Fantasy","Action & Adventure","Drama"],"creators":["Eric Kripke"],"url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys","hook":"A Superman parody stuffed with Supernatural in-jokes, comic-book deep cuts, and a dog named Terror doing the unthinkable to a Homelander doll.","intro":"When Soldier Boy blasts out of a Russian cryo-chamber in a naked cloud of steam, he isn't just making an entrance — he's restaging Castiel's barn arrival from *Supernatural*, and showrunner Eric Kripke has said so on the record. That's the double life of **The Boys**: a blood-soaked satire of Vought's superhero-industrial complex that doubles as a decade-long inside joke aimed at Kripke's old *Supernatural* crew.\n\nBecause so many writers, directors and actors came over from that show, Jensen Ackles' scenes are quietly loaded with Winchester references — a **January 24 procedure date** (Dean's birthday), REO Speedwagon on the stereo, a 1967 Impala that flattens Stormfront. But the series is just as fluent in comic-book in-jokes: Homelander's fake biopic titles (*Brightest Day*, *Darkest Night*) lift the Green Lantern oath, Queen Maeve's slow-mo rescue apes Wonder Woman, and Butcher's bulldog Terror finally shows up to hump a Homelander doll straight out of Garth Ennis' pages.\n\nBelow you'll find the confirmed nods, the freeze-frame catering gags (yes, those are the *Party Down* uniforms), the *Gen V* breadcrumbs, and the Season 5 *Supernatural* cast reunion that ends in a very Kripke bloodbath. Whether you're here for the Vought marketing parodies or the deep-cut casting jokes, you missed a few.","identifiers":{"tmdbId":76479,"tmdbUrl":"https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/76479","imdbId":"tt1190634","imdbUrl":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190634/"},"counts":{"eggs":19,"confirmed":4,"community":15,"theory":0,"sources":15},"postCredits":{"status":"yes","verdict":"Yes — The Boys has 2 post-credit scenes.","scenes":2,"description":"The Boys almost never uses post-credits scenes. Across five seasons there were only two genuine story stingers: one after Season 3, Episode 7 featuring the cartoon animals from Black Noir's imagination, and one after the Season 4 finale revealing Soldier Boy frozen in cryo-stasis. The Season 5 series finale skipped a plot scene in favor of a heartfelt behind-the-scenes photo montage thanking the cast and crew.","detail":null,"url":null},"eggs":[{"id":"maeve-wonder-woman","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys#egg-maeve-wonder-woman","title":"Queen Maeve's Slow-Mo Rescue Is Pure Wonder Woman","description":"In the pilot, Queen Maeve halts an armored car mid-heist in dreamy slow motion, plucking two civilians out of harm's way — a beat lifted straight from the DCEU's *Wonder Woman* and *Justice League*, where Gal Gadot's Diana moves through frozen time to save bystanders. It's the show's opening statement of intent: The Seven are transparent knockoffs of DC's icons, and Maeve is Vought's cynical, burned-out Wonder Woman, sword-and-armor aesthetic and branded girl-power merch included.","scene":"Maeve's introductory rescue during the armored-car robbery.","timestamp":null,"episode":"S1E1","types":["reference","visual"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — Every DC Reference In The Boys Seasons 1-3","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-boys-every-dc-reference-parody/"}],"motifs":["restaged-famous-shot"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"homelander-superman-farm","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys#egg-homelander-superman-farm","title":"Homelander's Wholesome Farm Origin Is a Superman Lie","description":"When Vought rolls out Homelander's all-American backstory — raised on a farm by two loving parents — it's a direct parody of Clark Kent growing up with Jonathan and Martha Kent in Smallville. The joke is savage: where Superman's Kansas upbringing gave him his moral compass, Homelander's 'childhood' is pure marketing spin covering a lab-grown boy raised inside a Vought facility with no parents at all. On screen he leans specifically on Zack Snyder's aloof, godlike Superman, right down to the lofty low-angle hero shots.","scene":"Homelander's televised, Vought-scripted origin story across Season 1.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — Every DC Reference In The Boys Seasons 1-3","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-boys-every-dc-reference-parody/"},{"label":"CBR — The Boys Season 2: 10 Superhero References Hidden In The Satirical Show","url":"https://www.cbr.com/amazon-the-boys-superhero-references-easter-egg/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"edgar-belize-gus-fring","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys#egg-edgar-belize-gus-fring","title":"Mr. Edgar Wants to Retire to Belize — a Breaking Bad Wink","description":"Giancarlo Esposito's unflappable Vought executive Stan Edgar muses about one day getting out and moving to Belize. For anyone who watched *Breaking Bad*, that's a loaded destination: 'sending someone to Belize' was Saul Goodman's euphemism for having them killed, and Esposito played Gus Fring, the calm, calculating crime lord Edgar is clearly cut from. It's a casting-aware nod that trusts you to remember exactly why Esposito plus Belize equals a quiet threat.","scene":"Edgar's first major sit-down as Vought's top executive in the Season 1 finale.","timestamp":null,"episode":"S1E8","types":["reference","cameo"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — The Boys: 10 Easter Eggs That You Might Have Missed","url":"https://screenrant.com/amazon-the-boys-easter-eggs-references-missed/"},{"label":"ComingSoon — The Boys Declassified: Every Easter Egg and Reference","url":"https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/features/1085835-the-boys-declassified"}],"motifs":["casting-in-joke"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"robert-singer-supernatural","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys#egg-robert-singer-supernatural","title":"Secretary Robert 'Dakota Bob' Singer Is a Supernatural Tribute","description":"Jim Beaver — *Supernatural*'s beloved Bobby Singer — joins The Boys as Secretary of Defense Robert Singer, later the presidential candidate 'Dakota Bob.' The name isn't a coincidence: Kripke named him after real-life *Supernatural* writer-director-producer Robert Singer, the same man Bobby Singer was named for. The show doubles down in the Season 3 finale by revealing Dakota Bob hails from Sioux Falls, South Dakota — Bobby Singer's hometown on *Supernatural* — and Kripke even slipped a Singer campaign poster into a Soldier Boy scene.","scene":"Robert Singer's scenes from Season 3 onward; the Sioux Falls reveal lands in the Season 3 finale.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","cameo"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"SlashFilm — All The Supernatural Easter Eggs in The Boys","url":"https://www.slashfilm.com/922674/all-the-supernatural-easter-eggs-in-the-boys/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — The Boys Season 3's Jensen Ackles Scenes Have Supernatural Easter Eggs","url":"https://screenrant.com/boys-season-3-jensen-ackles-supernatural-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":["character-name-homage","crew-tribute"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"seth-and-evan-rogen-goldberg","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys#egg-seth-and-evan-rogen-goldberg","title":"Vought's PR Writers Are Named After Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg","description":"Two of Vought's smarmy in-house creative staffers are named Seth and Evan — a tip of the hat to executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the writing-directing duo who helped bring the show to Amazon. Rogen doubles down with a Season 2 cameo playing himself, and he turns up again among the celebrity guests in Season 5. It's exactly the kind of self-referential producer in-joke the show loves, hidden inside a line of corporate-drone dialogue.","scene":"Vought PR and creative meetings referenced across the series.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["meta","reference"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — The Boys: 10 Easter Eggs That You Might Have Missed","url":"https://screenrant.com/amazon-the-boys-easter-eggs-references-missed/"}],"motifs":["character-name-homage","crew-tribute"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"green-lantern-movie-titles","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys#egg-green-lantern-movie-titles","title":"Homelander's Fake Movie Titles Hide the Green Lantern Oath","description":"Vought's in-universe blockbuster machine cranks out Homelander vehicles with titles like *Homelander: Brightest Day* and *Homelander: Darkest Night* — a scramble of the Green Lantern Corps oath, 'In brightest day, in blackest night.' They also nod to DC's real *Blackest Night* (2009) and *Brightest Day* (2010) crossover events. It's one of dozens of ways the show needles the superhero-movie assembly line while flexing its comic literacy.","scene":"Vought film branding and Homelander's filmography references.","timestamp":null,"episode":"S2E7","types":["reference"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — Every DC Reference In The Boys Seasons 1-3","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-boys-every-dc-reference-parody/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — The Boys: 10 Easter Eggs That You Might Have Missed","url":"https://screenrant.com/amazon-the-boys-easter-eggs-references-missed/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"terror-the-dog","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys#egg-terror-the-dog","title":"Butcher's Dog Terror Humps a Homelander Doll — Straight From the Comics","description":"Teased in Season 1 by an ominous empty cage, Billy Butcher's English bulldog Terror finally arrives in Season 2 — and immediately behaves exactly like his comic counterpart. On Butcher's command, Terror enthusiastically humps a Homelander doll; in Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comics, Terror will hump anything on cue, complete with attack words like 'Boner!' It's a deep pull for readers who wondered whether the show would dare adapt the franchise's filthiest running gag. It did.","scene":"Season 2 — Butcher gives Terror the command in the Boys' hideout.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["callback","reference"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Looper — The Truth About Billy Butcher's Dog On The Boys","url":"https://www.looper.com/226824/the-truth-about-billy-butchers-dog-on-the-boys/"},{"label":"ComingSoon — The Boys Declassified: Every Easter Egg and Reference","url":"https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/features/1085835-the-boys-declassified"}],"motifs":["book-accurate-detail"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"joss-rewrite-justice-league","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys#egg-joss-rewrite-justice-league","title":"The 'Joss Rewrite' Line Roasts Justice League","description":"While screening footage from Vought's superhero epic *Dawn of the Seven*, Homelander sneers, 'This new Joss rewrite really sings, huh.' That's a direct jab at Joss Whedon's reshoot-heavy overhaul of 2017's *Justice League* after Zack Snyder departed — the saga that later birthed the 'Snyder Cut.' The show keeps the bit running, mocking studio meddling with its own parody edit, *Dawn of the Seven: The Bourke Cut*.","scene":"Homelander watching Dawn of the Seven dailies.","timestamp":null,"episode":"S2E5","types":["reference","meta"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — The Boys: 10 Easter Eggs That You Might Have Missed","url":"https://screenrant.com/amazon-the-boys-easter-eggs-references-missed/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — Every DC Reference In The Boys Seasons 1-3","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-boys-every-dc-reference-parody/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"soldier-boy-castiel-entrance","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys#egg-soldier-boy-castiel-entrance","title":"Soldier Boy's Cryo-Chamber Entrance Copies Castiel","description":"Soldier Boy's big Season 3 reveal — bursting naked out of a steaming Russian cryo-chamber in a blast of light — was deliberately modeled on Castiel's iconic barn entrance in *Supernatural*, and Kripke has said so on the record. He wanted 'something really grand and big,' the same instinct that governed how Misha Collins' angel first strode into that show. Given how much *Supernatural* DNA runs through The Boys' crew, giving Jensen Ackles a Castiel-style debut was irresistible.","scene":"The Boys discover the long-lost Soldier Boy in the Russian lab.","timestamp":null,"episode":"S3E1","types":["reference","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"SlashFilm — All The Supernatural Easter Eggs in The Boys","url":"https://www.slashfilm.com/922674/all-the-supernatural-easter-eggs-in-the-boys/"}],"motifs":["restaged-famous-shot"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"january-24-dean-birthday","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys#egg-january-24-dean-birthday","title":"Soldier Boy's Procedure Is Dated January 24 — Dean Winchester's Birthday","description":"When the Boys dig through Russian footage of the experiments performed on Soldier Boy, a scientist notes a procedure 'dated January 24.' That's Dean Winchester's canonical birthday on *Supernatural* — the same character Jensen Ackles plays — and, per fans tracking the eggs, also the birthday of Kripke's wife. It's the kind of blink-and-miss date stamp only a *Supernatural* obsessive would clock, buried in a throwaway line of exposition.","scene":"The Boys watch the Russian lab recordings of Soldier Boy's procedures.","timestamp":null,"episode":"S3E5","types":["reference","trivia"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"SlashFilm — All The Supernatural Easter Eggs in The Boys","url":"https://www.slashfilm.com/922674/all-the-supernatural-easter-eggs-in-the-boys/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — The Boys Season 3's Jensen Ackles Scenes Have Supernatural Easter Eggs","url":"https://screenrant.com/boys-season-3-jensen-ackles-supernatural-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":["casting-in-joke","real-world-date-reference"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"impala-trunk-winchester","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys#egg-impala-trunk-winchester","title":"The 1967 Impala and Trunk Shots Salute Supernatural","description":"*Supernatural*'s real co-star was Dean's black 1967 Chevy Impala, and The Boys keeps sneaking it in — including an animated gag in Season 2 where Stormfront gets flattened by exactly that car. Season 3 layers in *Supernatural*'s signature 'weapons-in-the-trunk' hero shot, and the show's own social media confirmed the wink, captioning one such moment: 'There's a Winchester in that trunk but it ain't the kind you're thinking.' Between the car and the framing, Ackles' arc is a rolling *Supernatural* tribute.","scene":"Animated sequence in Season 2; recurring trunk-loading hero shots in Season 3.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","trivia"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"SlashFilm — All The Supernatural Easter Eggs in The Boys","url":"https://www.slashfilm.com/922674/all-the-supernatural-easter-eggs-in-the-boys/"}],"motifs":["casting-in-joke"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"herogasm-party-down","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys#egg-herogasm-party-down","title":"The Herogasm Caterers Are Wearing Party Down Uniforms","description":"Season 3's infamous 'Herogasm' episode adapts the comics' most notorious storyline — a secret supe orgy the public is told is an off-world mission. Freeze on the staff working the party and you'll spot the pink bow-tie uniforms from Starz's cult comedy *Party Down*, the show about a struggling LA catering crew. It's a sly crossover gag buried in one of the most chaotic episodes the series ever produced, rewarding anyone who can look past the carnage to the background extras.","scene":"Background catering staff during the Herogasm party.","timestamp":null,"episode":"S3E6","types":["reference","visual"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — Everything You Missed In The Boys S3 Episode 6","url":"https://screenrant.com/boys-season-3-episode-6-references-things-missed/"},{"label":"JoBlo — The Boys Season 3 Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.joblo.com/the-boys-season-3-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"imagine-gal-gadot","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys#egg-imagine-gal-gadot","title":"The Deep's Celebrity 'Imagine' Video Mocks Gal Gadot","description":"In Herogasm, The Deep leads a cringe-inducing all-star sing-along of John Lennon's 'Imagine' — featuring real celebrities including Patton Oswalt, Josh Gad, Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis and Rose Byrne. It's a pointed parody of the tone-deaf celebrity 'Imagine' video Gal Gadot organized during the 2020 COVID lockdown, widely mocked as out-of-touch. That the Wonder Woman star's viral misfire gets skewered on a show built from anti-DC satire is the extra twist of the knife.","scene":"The Deep's celebrity video segment.","timestamp":null,"episode":"S3E6","types":["reference","meta"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"JoBlo — The Boys Season 3 Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.joblo.com/the-boys-season-3-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — Everything You Missed In The Boys S3 Episode 6","url":"https://screenrant.com/boys-season-3-episode-6-references-things-missed/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"gen-v-setup","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys#egg-gen-v-setup","title":"Season 3 Quietly Plants the Seeds for Gen V","description":"Before the spin-off existed, The Boys was already seeding it. Season 3 introduces the Red River Institute — the Vought-run group home for Compound V kids — and a file glimpsed on screen features Jaz Sinclair, who would go on to headline *Gen V* as Marie Moreau at Godolkin University. The younger-supes-in-training thread runs straight into the college-set spin-off, making these easily-missed details early breadcrumbs for the wider Vought universe.","scene":"Red River Institute files and records shown in Season 3.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["foreshadowing","reference"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"JoBlo — The Boys Season 3 Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.joblo.com/the-boys-season-3-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":["sequel-tease"],"referencesSlug":"gen-v","referencesWork":null},{"id":"mr-marathon-van","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys#egg-mr-marathon-van","title":"The Boys' Catering Van Names a Dead Comic Speedster","description":"In the Season 4 premiere, the crew rolls up in a catering van branded 'Mr. Marathon Catering,' complete with a running-man logo. Mister Marathon is a character from the comics — the original speedster of The Seven, the role A-Train later filled. It reads as a throwaway prop gag in Season 4, but it's really a plant: Mister Marathon shows up in the flesh in Season 5, played by a very famous *Supernatural* alum.","scene":"The Boys' catering-van disguise in the season premiere.","timestamp":null,"episode":"S4E1","types":["reference","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — 16 Best The Boys Season 4 Easter Eggs & References","url":"https://screenrant.com/boys-season-4-easter-eggs-references/"}],"motifs":["sequel-tease"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"marvel-parody-recruitment-list","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys#egg-marvel-parody-recruitment-list","title":"The Seven's Audition List Is a Marvel and DC Roast","description":"When Ashley hands Homelander a shortlist of some two dozen supes to fill vacancies in The Seven, the names are a rogues' gallery of parodies pulled from the comics: Dogknott spoofs Teen Titans' Beast Boy, Groundhawk swaps Wolverine's claws for sledgehammer hands, Talon riffs on Marvel's Lady Deathstrike, and Dr. Peculiar caricatures Doctor Strange. Tek Knight and Sister Sage are on there too, bridging over from *Gen V*. Pause the list and it's a dense grid of superhero satire.","scene":"Ashley's recruitment shortlist handed to Homelander.","timestamp":null,"episode":"S4E1","types":["reference","visual"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"mxdwn Television — The Boys Season Four References Marvel Superheroes With Easter Egg Parodies","url":"https://television.mxdwn.com/news/the-boys-season-four-references-marvel-superheroes-with-easter-egg-parodies/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — 16 Best The Boys Season 4 Easter Eggs & References","url":"https://screenrant.com/boys-season-4-easter-eggs-references/"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"homelander-memory-box","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys#egg-homelander-memory-box","title":"Homelander's Keepsake Box Is a Silent Season Recap","description":"In the Season 4 premiere, Homelander opens a private box of mementos, and every item is a callback: a framed photo of Stormfront posing with a Nazi flag (his radicalizing love from Season 2), a baby bottle feeding his infamous breast-milk obsession, and Black Noir's sword — the one from the Noir he personally executed at the end of Season 3. It's wordless character work, packing three seasons of Homelander's damage into a single prop.","scene":"Homelander alone with his box of keepsakes.","timestamp":null,"episode":"S4E1","types":["callback","visual"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — 16 Best The Boys Season 4 Easter Eggs & References","url":"https://screenrant.com/boys-season-4-easter-eggs-references/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"colt-1911-supernatural","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys#egg-colt-1911-supernatural","title":"Soldier Boy's 'All-American Colt 1911' Winks at Supernatural","description":"In Season 5, prepping for a TV hit alongside Firecracker, Soldier Boy proudly calls his sidearm an 'All-American Colt 1911.' For *Supernatural* fans it lands as another Ackles wink: the Winchesters' most legendary weapon was simply 'the Colt,' a demon-killing revolver forged in the 1800s. Soldier Boy's is an ordinary pistol with no supernatural juice, but sharing the name — out of Dean Winchester's mouth, essentially — keeps the show's decade-long *Supernatural* game running into its final year.","scene":"Soldier Boy and Firecracker backstage before a broadcast.","timestamp":null,"episode":"S5E3","types":["reference"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — The Boys Season 5 Episode 3 Supernatural Easter Egg","url":"https://collider.com/the-boys-season-5-episode-3-supernatural-easter-egg-soldier-boy-colt/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — The Boys Has A Sneaky Easter Egg For Supernatural Fans In Season 5","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-boys-season-5-colt-supernatural-easter-egg/"}],"motifs":["casting-in-joke"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"supernatural-reunion-poker","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys#egg-supernatural-reunion-poker","title":"Season 5 Stages a Supernatural Reunion — Then a Bloodbath","description":"Season 5's fifth episode reunites the *Supernatural* trio: Jensen Ackles' Soldier Boy drops in on a Hollywood poker game hosted by aging supes played by Jared Padalecki (as comic speedster Mister Marathon) and Misha Collins (as gas-powered Malchemical), with comedians Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, Will Forte and Christopher Mintz-Plasse at the table — a nod to Rogen's *This Is the End*. Padalecki's Marathon plays on the actor's real marathon-running hobby. Kripke, true to form, ends the reunion in gore: Homelander stomps Mister Marathon's head and Soldier Boy snaps Malchemical's neck.","scene":"The Hollywood poker game at Mister Marathon's house.","timestamp":null,"episode":"S5E5","types":["cameo","reference"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"TV Insider — Supernatural Reunion on The Boys: Easter Eggs and Surprises Explained","url":"https://www.tvinsider.com/gallery/the-boys-supernatural-reunion-explained-easter-eggs-jared-jensen-misha/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — Supernatural Stars Reunite As 'Douchebags' In The Boys Season 5","url":"https://screenrant.com/the-boys-season-5-jared-padalecki-misha-collins-jensen-ackles-reunion-villains/"}],"motifs":["actor-reunion"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null}],"faq":[{"question":"How many easter eggs are in The Boys?","answer":"This guide breaks down 19 standout easter eggs and hidden references across all five seasons of The Boys, from Queen Maeve's Wonder Woman rescue and the Green Lantern oath buried in Homelander's fake movie titles to the show's many Supernatural in-jokes. Four are officially confirmed by showrunner Eric Kripke or Vought's own social accounts; the rest are widely documented community catches. With comic parodies packed into nearly every episode, the true tally runs far higher."},{"question":"Is Homelander based on Superman?","answer":"Largely, yes. Homelander is a savage inversion of Superman, right down to a fabricated farm-boy origin parodying Clark Kent's Kansas upbringing with the Kents. The live-action version specifically channels Zack Snyder's aloof, godlike Man of Steel, using lofty low-angle hero shots to make him look divine. The comics fold in some Captain America notes too, but on screen Homelander owes most to DC's Superman."},{"question":"What are the Supernatural easter eggs in The Boys?","answer":"Because Eric Kripke created both shows and staffed The Boys with Supernatural veterans, Jensen Ackles' Soldier Boy scenes are loaded with nods: a cryo-chamber entrance copying Castiel, a January 24 date (Dean Winchester's birthday), REO Speedwagon on the stereo, the 1967 Impala, 'Winchester in the trunk' hero shots, and a Season 5 reunion with Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins. Secretary Robert Singer even honors Supernatural producer Robert Singer."},{"question":"Does The Boys have a post-credits scene?","answer":"Rarely. Across its run The Boys used only two true post-credits stingers: one after Season 3, Episode 7 featuring Black Noir's imaginary cartoon animals, and one after the Season 4 finale revealing Soldier Boy frozen in cryo-stasis. The Season 5 series finale skipped a story scene in favor of a behind-the-scenes photo montage thanking the cast and crew, so most episodes have nothing after the credits."},{"question":"Is Herogasm a real storyline from the comics?","answer":"Yes. 'Herogasm' adapts one of the most notorious arcs from Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comics, where supes are told they're leaving on a heroic off-world mission while actually attending a secret orgy. The show scales it down and slips in gags like caterers wearing Party Down uniforms and The Deep's Gal Gadot 'Imagine' parody, but the core premise comes straight from the page."}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-08","updatedAt":"2026-07-08","source":{"name":"The Things You Missed","page":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/the-boys","api":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/api/titles/the-boys","methodology":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/about"}}